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"It is customary to view young people's dating relationships and first relationships as puppy love or infatuation"; [6] and if infatuation is both an early stage in a deepening sequence of love/attachment, and at the same time a potential stopping point, it is perhaps no surprise that it is a condition especially prevalent in the first, youthful explorations of the world of relationships.
Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's syndrome, [1] is a relatively uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them. [2]
Limerence is a state of mind resulting from romantic feelings for another person. It typically involves intrusive and melancholic thoughts, or tragic concerns for the object of one's affection, along with a desire for the reciprocation of one's feelings and to form a relationship with the object of love.
Some slow-burn relationships happen because two people begin as friends and don’t have an initial element of passion, infatuation, or physical chemistry. Other times, external situational ...
Others offered reasons along the lines of: "Some mental health experts have compared infatuation with killers to extreme forms of fanaticism. They view such individuals as insecure people who cannot find love in normal ways or as 'love-avoidant' females who seek romantic relationships that cannot be consummated."
We should be careful not to create harmful patterns, though, if someone's first love didn't go as planned. "Our first experience of love is formative," trauma counselor Jordan Pickell says. "It ...
The refrain of parents is “I love all my children equally.” But not all kids get treated equally. Experts explain the impact of preferential treatment in a family.
For example, Sternberg's triangular theory of love illustrates various types of possible loves, outlining the dynamics between passion, intimacy and commitment in the development of romantic love, infatuation, companionate love, liking, fatuous love, empty love, and consummate love . [1]